>> i have t agree with john. lou: stephen hayes get last word. >> i think it is possible we don't but i suspect we'll have some last minute, slap dash, terrible washington style deal that won't do anything. this fiscal cliff doesn't solve our long-term debt propses. lou: breaking with the practice and policies of washington over the course of the past 50 years. stephen hayes, thank you very much. judith miller, thank you very much. john fund, thank you. time for a few quick comments. ken wrote us to say, correct me if i'm wrong, wasn't it the obama administration that released thousands of guns into the hands of criminals? now they want to talk gun control for law-abiding citizens? that was just "fast and furious." mike tweeted us about benghazi and the report, always blame the dead guys. they did. thanks for being with us. has t. >> wall street is very concerned. no dou the average folks at home who have been cutting back more inclined to hang onto their wallets. they don't know what will happen. thank you congress. thank you mr. president. >> it is charities' season. makes us fe

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senior political analyst and editorial director of the national journal and stephen moore, senior economics writer at the "wall street journal" and is in washington, d.c. first up, ron, will, do you think, these politicians reach a deal or not and why or why not? >> the fiscal cliff was yeelted as a doomsday machine to try to give them more will power to do what they can't do on their own, to reach a deal. the reason all of this was here, incentive to reach a deal, some of your guests pointed out during the day, a lot can go wrong when you leave is it to this late, a little little surprising to me republicans don't feel urgency, talk about this in a minute, maybe, the wolf on the other side of the cliff, difficult for both sides, the country is worse for the republicans than the democrats. it's possible they make a deal, possible they go over, no more precision than that. >> are we thelma and luiz, rocketing towards that canyon? >> took the words out of my mouth, even if we don't get a deal by the stroke of midnight tonight before the ball comes down on times square, it is not the

, before thelit, before thethe, before the >> a nice shot stephen, thank you for that. what's interesting is that was associated with the weather pattern change that brought us our inclement weather low clouds around the area today a couple of raindrops but it was just to the north of us that it was pretty substantial snow this was a little disturbance shot out of the main storm is moving to the east of us tonight so most of the precipitation is gone ready to jump the mountains and plug into gulf moisture. their first wave said down this 800 mile- long corridor of snow with a lot of measurable snow reports here is brookfield wisconsin out on the western suburbs we were just cloudy and great as you can see here snows up north were pretty impressive in the corridor. beaver dam wisconsin 2.8 and 3.3 there brown deer had 1.4 in. of snow. the next storm this one will die down over the weekend into the southern plains 1.2 in. is the amount of moisture heading off of the models now a huge spread in the amounts of snow indicating a 1 wide gradientwide grady and across the area thisgradient across

jim demint is dequitting. >> run stephen, run. >> you want somebody young, conservative, from south carolina. maybe who has super pac pointing -- wait a second. ♪ >> thank goodness it's friday and it's a busy one at that. we have breaking news. within the last hour, the supreme court has announced that it will for the first time take up appeals on same-sex marriage. hearing cases on the defense of marriage act and california's proposition 8. much more on that in a moment, and the busy week ends with some good news for america's workers and the president. a little christmas cheer some early. the u.s. economy generating a stronger than expected 146,000 new jobs in november helping trim the jobless rate to 7.7%. a four-year low. happy holidays, right? not if you're john boehner. >> this isn't a progress report because there is no progress to report. the president has adopted a deliberate strategy to slow walk our economy right to the edge of the fiscal cliff. >> yes, indeed, it's like a visit from the ghost of christmas past, casual friday edition. another positive month of jobs numb

as stephen said, very accurately called toll and he's ridden them much further than i have. now they're only about 5% of my portfolio. they were as much as 15. i've taken a lot off because of that valuation value. >> whoever says i think he's guilty and innocent? set this will one? >> stephen weiss wins. the orders were strong. 20% better than expected. this was a strong earnings report. the stock is trading terrible today. pulling back from the highs. the street does not believe the sto story. upgrade the stock and raise the targets. valuation is full. the story is known. housing recovery is here. prices are going up. it toll brothers is not responding. >> steve grasso is watching key levels on the s&p. we were talk iing about s&p 50. what are we watching? what's the exact level we need to keep in mind? >> we broke the average to the down side. 50 day is 1420. the problem is when you look at the 1405 level, this is a real soft support. below this is 1395. that's your real support. below that 200 day at 1386. >> give me a read, also, grasso, on a stock you talk with about a lot

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, you know, in virginia tech. i'm sure it's what stephen got in colorado. from people from across the world, frankly, reaching out and saying, you know, i'm feeling for you. you know, i have a family too. so, you know, i just hope and pray that at some point each one of these families will find something positive, you know, to put their efforts towards and remember their loved one and make sure that what happens to them doesn't happen to another american family. >> and stephen, what was your choice in moving forward from your experience of being a victim of one of these shootings? >> well, you know, i just wanted to turn what had been essentially a senseless act of violence into something that had meaning for me, so i decided i really wanted to get involved with gun violence prevention and so i joined mayors against illegal guns, which is a bipartisan coalition of 750 mayors from across the country cofounded by mayor bloomberg of new york city and mayor menino of boston, and it's been an incredible experience so far to see how far in the past year we've come on this issue and in my mi

happened in aurora, arguably an even worse tragedy. 20 5-year-old children blown to pieces. stephen, let me start with that. you were a victim in aurora. you were shot. how you doing physically, first of all? >> i'm slowly recovering. some nerve damage in my left arm. but all things considered, doing really well. >> it's nearly five months to the day since the massacre in that movie theater. and we see this incident happening in newtown. it's just beyond grotesque. what were your feelings when you heard of had happened coming to soon after what happened to you? >> yeah, i saw the initial reports like everyone did, that maybe just the shooter had been killed. and all of the sudden it was 27 people murdered. and growing up, having grown up ten minutes down the road from that community, i couldn't believe that once again my life was going to be affected in this way by such horrible violence. >> you actually live literally ten minutes away? >> right. that's where i grew up my whole life. >> what does this say about america that you're attacked in a movie theater by a young man with an a

>> stephen weiss? >> soda, they are going to sell a lot of soda dispensers this holiday season. >> you have one, you like it? >> you have one. >> i have one, i like it, too. full disclosure on this program. murphy? >> target. buy target here. i think a great holiday season. the stock recently pulled back about 7%. >> more "fast money" airs tonight at 5 p.m. eastern time. please follow me on twitter at scott wapner cnbc. following the market on "power lunch" as well. that starts now. >>> lace them up, halftime is over. the second half of the trading day starts now. >> it sure does, scott, thank you very much. the stakes are getting higher. state governors meeting with president obama to express their fears about the fiscal cliff while both sides squabble. we are going to get an expert lesson from a best-selling author on the art of getting deals done. investors are getting ready for friday's crucial employment report. so where are the jobs right now who is hiring? who is creating them in the face of the fiscal cliff? we have got the answers and they may surprise you. >>> and let

. they made an application to go public in 2009, with drawing in 2011. cerberus's's ceo stephen feinberg has a personal link to the town where the children were shot to death. his father lives in a retirement community there. comments on the sale have not been returned. >> so should big institutions like private equity firms, pensions step up pressure on weapons makers or stop funding them all together. "fortune" magazine senior editor first broke the money behind the newtown massacre story. dan, let's talk a little bit about this. how do you react to the idea cerberus is now, in light of this, going to sell the company they so meticulously put together. it's not as though people didn't know that they were in the weapons business here all along. now they are saying we want to be out of it because we don't want to be part of the debate or they think the heat on them is going to become too great. >> i think it's the heat not part of the debate. they owned freedom group when freedom group had paid lobbyists in d.c. working on gun issues. that's not directly cerberus but clearly tha

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is going to get resolved right new. looks like we may go into january without a deal. >> stephen moore saying we're going off the cliff. we've got new details on the plan, the president's scaled-down proposal. here's what's on the table. extend the current tax rates for 98% of americans, incomes up to $250,000. extend unemployment benefits, that's an important point. not being talked about enough. extending the alternative minimum tax patch. prevents cuts in payments to doctors who treatment medicare payments. -- patients. would this scaled-down proposal save us from economic disaster? >> we've done a tremendous amount of damage to ourselves, embarrassing ourselves around the world. we're assuring investors we're as risky as standard & poor's thought we were when they reduced our credit rating. it would be great if we could avoid sharp credit risks. restoring the unemployment insurance benefits is really important because you have millions of people who are depending on this for income. and they're going to spend that money if you give it to them and that's what the economy needs

that under state law it's legal. >>> governor -- stephen colbert called on republican viewers to support haley. among the findings that kolber attended a state trade conference as a representative of iran. that he didn't know the state amphibian was the spottal sal man manneder and he changed the pronunciation of his last name to appeal to republican elites. >>> jim demint saying he believes nicky haley will announce his replacement today. >>> our series of interviews with retired senators roll on. my conversation with jeff binghamton about why he wants to change the senate's rules and his own changing views on issues like same-sex marriage. you just have to eat it as part of your heart healthy diet. step 1. eat the soup. all those veggies and beans, that's what may help lower your cholesterol and -- well that's easy [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. that's what may help lower your cholesterol and -- well that's easy oh, let me guess --ou see this? more washington gridlock. no, it's worse -- look, our taxes are about to go up. not the taxes on our dividends

gregory, chris cizilla and the campaign to fix the debt. will governor nikki haley appoint stephen colbert to the senate? just imagine the filibuster. the latest with politico's maggie haberman on the impact of jim demint's departure. is there a military solution to counter weapons in syria. the latest from the white house picture gallery. all that and more coming up on "andrea mitchell reports." two years ago, the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf. bp has paid over twenty-three billion dollars to help those affected and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are open, and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. and bp's also committed to america. we support nearly 250,000 jobs and invest more here than anywhere else. we're working to fuel america for generations to come. our commitment has never been stronger. or treat gas with these after you get it. now that's like sunblock before or sun burn cream later. oh, somebody out there's saying, now i get it! take beano before and there'll be no gas.

right there. let's talk about this with some market pros, morgan lander and stephen nicholas is with us, ed moy and rick lake was with us earlier. chad morgan lander, what do you do? investors are watching all of this, they want some direction and they want to get ready for 2030 and the nonsense continues in washington. >> well, the market is going to get sloppy over the next two weeks until they get a resolution, and you should fully expect that they will get a resolution, and it will be just a short-term resolution. once you get, that the market will then snap back, so we're expecting between a 5% and 7% correction within the market until that time comes, but do you want to layer in risk. you want to be buying good quality companies at this point in time as the market comes into, because that market will snap back, and you will see a modicum of economic growth going further out into the spring. >> and i can see that apple is one of the ones that you like there in terms of snapping up beaten down stocks. you see 20% upside. ed, i want to get to you because i was reading through your bi

. physicist stephen hawking just received a $3 million prize for his work in the field of quantum gravity. yeah, $3 million. he was like -- [ as hawking ] "time to make it rain, bitches." [ laughter ] "what'd you say? you throw $3 million dollars around?" hey, get this. airlines in europe are testing a new robot that can make drinks for passengers instead of having flight attendants do it. this way, flight attendants can stay focused on their most important job, ramming the beverage cart into your elbow. [ laughter ] "sorry. pardon me. should you be at seat -- 7f? you're over in 7g. yeah. i know there's no one there, but you just be a lamb and sit over there?" [ laughter ] some sports news. last night, the lakers lost to the knicks for their fourth loss in a row. [ cheers and applause ] i don't want to say that it was an easy night for the knicks but even woody allen finished with nine points. it was -- [ as woody allen ] "all those personal fouls in the lane, it's -- it's like the nuremberg trial. [ laughter ] amazing." and finally, victoria's secret has released a christmas musi

would teach stephen colbert if the comedian became the next senator from south carolina. he said how to shut up. >> huh? >> really? does he know how? >> mccain knows how to shut up? those who can't do, teach. >> stephanie: sexy liberal tour comedians rule the world. he's ahead. stephen colbert is ahead. he leads the list of potential candidates to replace jim demint in a new public policy polling. >> one thing i learned about working with john mccain when i worked in arizona, do not get between him and a television camera. >> stephanie: jim and i made that mistake once at the last inauguration. >> you will die! >> stephanie: we were trying to get out of his way. he was storming toward imus or something. >> he and lindsey graham are jockeying to be the biggest gadflies. ron paul was taking a powder to get out of the camera way in the house or whatever so these two guys are the two senators. >> stephanie: he's the senator from the green room. >> nobody wants to see mcconnell or boehner. they're the two that we'll take the spotlight because we look like we're in the process of doing som

. there have been discussions of stephen elop as a successor. >> he was on my list last year. >> went to nokia. >> some say he should be on the list this year. >> a two-step process. can you fill in the blanks there. >> bouncing around. >> musical chairs. try and sit down when the music stops. thanks so much, ed. >> while we're on the subject. let's give credit, microsoft basically invented the way we compute today. it has done a lot of great things. it put computers on everybody's desktop. check out microsoft wall of shame. remember these? nobody is going to plame you if you don't. zune, kin, microsoft bob, neither do i, web tv, you prove, biggest mistake they ever made was the paper clip. looks like you're writing a resume. would you like your co-workers to see? >> i don't think there's a single person in the world that liked the paper clip. >> you couldn't get rid of the guy. >> twitter verse, tell me if you liked it, i don't think anybody did. >> the big reveal, who will be the single worst ceo of the year? >> okay. let's send it to bertha coombs in the meantime for a quick market fl

stephen weiss is with short hills capital. good to see you. jeff, make the case. you're looking at the charts. how do you like ups versus fedex? >> maria, i think you have to look at the longer-term chart, and if you look at the ten-year period, the true leader is federal express. it's up 76% versus the 24% that ups is. that's where you find the leaders. now let's take a closer look and look at the micro view of this chart, and we go to the year to date chart, and if you see a year to date, trading within a range, between 84 and 94, and what's going tonight difference. what's going tonight difference to push this to go higher, the catalyst, right. we wanted to see it go above $94 a share and the catalyst is going tonight international markets. we've seen some clarity over there, and you've seen a really -- fedex's international numbers have to increase, and that's the catalyst right there. >> jeff, they are both international. it depends on where you want to play. i like ups better because it's got a 3% yield versus a less than 1%. i think about half a percent yelled for fedex and

hung tough. stephen lumpkins giving the give and go and the lay-in. hoyas -- you've seen them in person. they got this kid otto porter with 16. hoyas by 15 at the break. second half, back up to porter, throw it down! hoyas beating au 65-48. next up, big east play begins january 5th against marquette. >>> governor's holiday hoops classic, paul hewitt and richmond. trailing by 12, 7 1/2 to go, but 90 seconds to go, edwards missed, aldridge follows to give mason their first lead of the game, 63-62. 5 seconds to go, tied at 64-64. wright for three! oh, you bet ya! at the buzzer, game-high 22 for wright. mason comes all the way back to defeat richmond 67-64. >> very nice. >>> all eyes on calvin johnson last night, needed 182 yards to break a single receiving record, fourth quarter, there it is. c.j. with 225 yards, 11 catches, now has 1892 yards, only 108 to go to get to 2000. of course nobody had ever done what he did last night, nobody ever gotten to 2000. falcons win 31-18. i know you love adrian peterson for mvp. you got to talk about calvin johnson. >> i agree. he should be in th

haley is looking to replace jim demint. south carolina native and favorite son stephen colbert with with an idea of who should fill that seat. >> who will she pick? you want somebody young and conservative, somebody from south carolina. maybe somebody who had a super pac. wait a second. >> watch where you point that thing. it's powerful. okay. >> governor haley jokingly writing thank you for your interest in the u.s. senate seat, but you didn't know our state drink. big, big mistake. for the record the state drink in south carolina is milk. the 2012 presidential election broke the $2 billion mark making it the most expensive race in american plital history. federal finance reports show president obama's re-election team raced just north of $1.1 billion while team romney raised just under $1.1 billion. that story is the topic of our gut check on this friday. what does your gut tell you? is a $2 billion election too expensive? go to facebook.com/newsnation to vote. that will do it for this friday edition of "news nation." i'm craig melvin. "the cycle" is up next. oh...there you go. wooohoo

. >> in the meantime we are heading into the last shopping weekend before christmas, and stephen bebis is the ceo of brookstone and joins us now on how the holiday season has been shaping up. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> before we get into the holiday season, i need to admit something. i am the guy who sits in those chairs in the airport, you know how you have them in your -- in your store? >> yeah. >> and the massage chairs. and i wonder, do you sell those chairs? i know they're for sale. but how many of those chairs do you sell in a given year? >> we actually sell thousands of those chairs. it's one of our strongest items in our stores. our sales are up over 20% in shares this year alone. >> but you were mad when it just stopped and you were like, this is a mis -- i thought there was more. >> no. i get mad when the brookstone guy comes over and says you've been sitting in that chair for probably too long. and i haven't bought anything yet. >> well, we like you trying the chairs. we like to demonstrate those chairs. because once you sit in a brookstone chair, you're going

change to your wallet? we want to get a reality check from stephen moore, a member of the wall street editorial board and author of "who's the fairest of them all?" . stephen, we have spent six month talking about this can't happen we can't go off the fiscal cliff. we've got to meet this deadline and now they are saying, it's not that bad. which is it? >> look, i don't think it's the end of the world and i think it would get resolved in the weeks ahead but it's a black eye for our whole political system. think about this. here we are two or three days away from the start of the year without any american business or investor or workerer knowing what the payroll tax is going to be, income tax is going to be, i mean, this just isn't a very good way to run a country and it's almost like banana republic politics. >> my dad used to say, no way to run a railroad. let's talk about a couple of things. this whole idea that tax rates on everyone will go up. does the irs, does the treasury department have the ability to sort of say, look, here's some guidance. keep withholding where it is? >> the

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people would pay the amt. 100 million tax refunds would be delayed. stephen miller sent a letter to the house and senate. tax writers saying this is going to be unexpectedly higher taxes for many taxpayers who simply aren't aware of their new tax liability. it will be a total and complete mess. 100 million tax refunds delayed, 30 million more people have to pay the amt. >> you've been looking into the business of guns all week. there is just fascinating stuff going on. >> a billion dollars in profit this year. one forecast, a billion dollars in profit this year for this industry. kint ov i can't overstate how big, powerful and profitable it is to make the guns you're looking at on your screen. the traditional bolt action rifles and guns you think as a big part of the industry, the fastest growing part of the market are the sport rifles. there is a coolness and hipness factor in owning the military style rifles. there is huge soaring demand for those. there are more gun shops in america than there are super markets and mcdonald's restaurants locations combined. think of the impact of

uncomfortable with where we just went. >> i love -- i love stephen a. smith. i'm uncomfortable where you just went. our documentary, "black in america," what it was all about. rg3 doesn't fit into parker's sense of what real blackness is. >> like a stereotype. people advocating against stereotypes, stereotyping themselves their own people. >> it's so -- it's so offensive on so many levels. you lined up three white guys to talk about this thing, this term cornball brother, and i tooked an informal poll, and all my black friends. have you ever heard the term, the answer is unanimously by the way no. it turned robert griffin iii, any sense of individuality, and he wants to be defined by who i am, which is a great afrifricki quarterback. >> he feels like he's dodging the question. are you -- what is the role of race in being this great quarterback? right? and for people of color, it's often a challenge. he wants to say i don't want to be defined by being the black quarterback, but at the same time i want to represent all of the black people who look at me as a great quarterback. mr. park

come aashore over the weekend. this is in stephens pass, washington. san francisco is still working out flight delays caused by wind-driven rain. you can see what it did to northern california as heavy surf pounded the shoreline. we'll bring in alexadrra steele. even a tornado threat you're talking about. that's rare. what are we watching? >> it is rare, suzanne. i want to show you this map. it's rare to have an isolated tornd or two, but a severe weather outbreak is the xpt for her tomorrow is more rare. here's a look. tomorrow, christmas morning, i'm going to delineate the time so you can see who will see what and when. from houston to new orleans, tomorrow morning your severe weather outbreak threat. winds 60 to 80 miles per hour, and very serious tornados and large, damaging hale. it moving in the afternoon and picks up into western florida. from the afternoon into the evening, atlanta to birmingham. both the severe side tomorrow and a snowy side tomorrow, which is rare as well. in florida and georgia the last time we had christmas day tornadoes was in 2006, and there were six. befo

. the president held a screening at the white house with the cast and director stephen spielberg and held a special screening for some gop house members so i think in the film the 13th amendment abolishing slavery passes with less discussion than we've been having about the fiscal cliff but compromise, compromise. maybe this will inspire our leaders to kind of reach a middle ground here. we'll have to see. >> if anyone can do it, daniel day-lewis can do it. i'll let you go get a drink of water. for the latest headline news, watch "showbiz tonight" at 11:00 eastern on hln. >>> your next apple computer could be made here in the good old usa. we'll have the latest in a shift in apple manufacturing. when you take a closer look... ...at the best schools in the world... ...you see they all have something very interesting in common. they have teachers... ...with a deeper knowledge of their subjects. as a result, their students achieve at a higher level. let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. how they'll l

itself in court. >>> actor stephen baldwin owes $53,000 in back taxes and penalties. he plead not guilty. the actor handed over a check for $100,000 as a good faith down payment on what he owes. baldwin is due back in court in february. >>> a surprise jump in the number of jobs in november. 146,000 jobs added last month. that's nearly double what some economists had expected. joining me now is former economic adviser to the romney campaign and director of economic policy studies at the american enterprise institute. good morning to you. >> morning. >> give me your take on these numbers. >> very solid report, the fact that we've been growing. and we expected it to drop a lot because of all the problems that they had in the new york area. but that didn't happen. what we see, i think, is a very solid labor market, the kind of labor market that could lead to sort of sustained moderate consumption growth. there is a little bit of bad news coming in the fourth quarter. it looks like capital spend something falling off the face of the earth. people expect gdp in the fourth quarter to be kind of

rarely get a chance to understand their desperation. this from stephen, he should focus on things that can realistically be done to get off food stamps. show that it's not beneath someone to work at mcdonald's or macy's to get back on their feet. from sara, it's not about telling us something, it's about continually raising awareness. from leslie, he may be doing it for the right reason, but i know elderly people that live like this for years. i don't see what one week will prove. now, six months, that's a different story. keep the conversation going. facebook.com/carolcnn. i'll be right back. the writer's desktop and the coordinator's phone are working on a joke with local color. the secure cloud just received a revised intro from the strategist's tablet. and while i make my way into the venue, the candidate will be rehearsing off of his phone. [ candidate ] and thanks to every young face i see out there. [ woman ] his phone is one of his biggest supporters. [ female announcer ] with cisco at the center... working together has never worked so well. bp has paid overthe people of b

laws and record casualties for mass killers. the site quits dr. stephen hargarten at the medical college of wisconsin. he says, quote, armed civilians attempting to intervene are actually more likely to increase the bloodshed given that civilian shooters are less likely to hit their targets than police in these circumstances. even police officers aren't expert marksmen in the heat of battle. remember the chaotic scene at the empire state building last august in new york city? new york police officers confronted a gunman. in the process wounded nine innocent bystanders. would my first grade teacher, mrs. van horn, be a better shot? talk back question for you this morning. should teachers be armed? facebook.com/carolcnn. facebook.com/carolcnn. your responses a little later. oh, let me guess --ou see this? more washington gridlock. no, it's worse -- look, our taxes are about to go up. not the taxes on our dividends though, right? that's a big part of our retirement. oh, no, it's dividends, too. the rate on our dividends would more than double. but we depend on our dividends to help

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wealth in america. stephen moore. stephan, you are the bearer of bad news this morning. how much are our taxes going to get hit in just two weeks? >> well, good morning, guys. merry christmas. you though, this is an unbelievable situation because it's been, what, five or six weeks since the election. abc it's amazing that they are still as far apart today from getting a deal as they were when we first started talking about this. if we do go over the cliff. by the way i agree with peter. i still there is a slim chance at getting something done next week before new year's eve. but if we don't get that deal, we're talking about a very major tax increase. not just on people like warren buffet and bill gates but middle class folks. by my calculations if you look at all the taxes that are going up. if we go over the cliff you are talking about if you are a middle class family earning between 45 and $75,000 your tax bill will go up $2,500 a year. >> we have some of these statistics by category here on the screen. this is modern. from zero dollars to $20,000. you are still going to get hit.

know whom i have another dream. senator stephen colbert. a lot of buzz about him replacing jim demint. i tweeted i wouldn't just block legislation, i would body check it. yes. he's encouraging the speculation about it. nikki will name him. he spoke in support of it on his show. i know when i look at the u.s. senate, you know what? they could use another white guy. ♪ let's hear it for the boy ♪ >> stephanie: how hilarious would that be? ♪ get's live the boy a -- let's give the boy a hand ♪ >> stephanie: speaking of no sense of humor those million moms, they're at it again. >> oh, god really? [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] >> stephanie: they have said they're moving on from their latest ellen degeneres protest. >> million moms, pretty much -- just one mom -- >> stephanie: i think it is a guy. >> there was a dude in there. just one mom. >> stephanie: it was concern women for america that has a male president. >> in her mom's basement. >> stephanie: the group to complain about ellen degeneres' appearance is not going to pursue further protests. they posted the web site sa

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